• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.1844-1852
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• 2001

Recent developments in microfluidic devices based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technique find many practical applications, which include electronic chip cooling devices, power MEMS devices, micro sensors, and bio-medical devices among others. For the design of such micro devices, flows characteristics inside a microchannel have to be clarified which exhibit somewhat different characteristics compared to conventional flows in a macrochannel. In the present study microchannels of various hydraulic diameters are fabricated on a silicon wafer to study the pressure drop characteristics. The effect of abrupt contraction and expansion is also studied. It is found from the results that the friction factor in a straight microchannel is about 15% higher than that in a conventional macrochannel, and the loss coefficients in abrupt expansion and contraction are about 10% higher than that obtained through conventional flow analysis.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.34-40
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• 1983

점탄성유체 유동에 대하여 일반적으로 U.C맥스웰 모델 또는 올드로이드 B모델이 사용되지만 이러한 모델들은-매우 큰 전단율 영역인 윤활문제에서 믿기 힘든-수직응력의 크기가 전단율의 제곱에 비례함을 나타내므로, 본 연구에서는 수직응력 계수들 (.psi.,.psi.$_{2}$)이 가정될 수 있는 Criminale-Ericksen-Filbey모델이 사용되었다. 2차 수직응력계수는 다른 문제들에서와 같이 무시되었으며 Weissenberg수가 포함된 특수레이놀즈식이 유도되었다. 이 모델의 속도분포는 -2차원 약한 점탄성 유체에 대하여 증명된 바와 같이-뉴우톤 유체와 같이 가정되었다. 유도된 특수레이놀즈 식은 Weissenberg수를 1까지 계산되었으며 그 결과 점탄성유체가 유한저어널 베 어링에서 유리한 것으로 나타났지만 그 차가 미소하여 일반베어링에서 점탄성 윤활유의 영향이 무시됨을 보였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.379-386
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• 1985

본 연구에서는 부차적으로 이와 같은 광반사법의 유용성을 개발, 평가하고자 한다. 또 실험에서 벽면에 부착되는 입자는 기하학적 형상에 따라 입자주위의 유체 흐름에 지배적인 영향을 받게 되므로 실험을 통하여 입자의 기하학적 형상에 따라 변 화되는 열확산 효과의 상대적인 영향을 평가한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.427-428
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• 2010

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.1923-1930
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• 2004

This paper presents digital microflow controllers(DMFC), where a fluidic digital-to-analog converter(DAC) is used to achieve high-linearity, fine-level flow control for applications to precision biomedical dosing systems. The fluidic DAC, composed of binary-weighted flow resistance, controls the flow-rate based on the ratio of the flow resistance to achieve high-precision flow-rate control. The binary-weighted flow resistance has been specified by a serial or a parallel connection of an identical flow resistor to improve the linearity of the flow-rate control, thereby making the flow-resistance ratio insensitive to the size uncertainty in flow resistors due to micromachining errors. We have designed and fabricated three different types of 4-digit DMFC: Prototype S and P are composed of the serial and the parallel combinations of an identical flow resistor, while Prototype V is based on the width-varied flow resistors. In the experimental study, we perform a static test for DMFC at the forward and backward flow conditions as well as a dynamic tests at pulsating flow conditions. The fabricated DMFC shows the nonlinearity of 5.0% and the flow-rate levels of 16(2$^{N}$) for the digital control of 4(N) valves. Among the 4-digit DMFC fabricated with micromachining errors, Prototypes S and P show 27.2% and 27.6% of the flow-rate deviation measured from Prototype V, respectively; thus verifying that Prototypes S and P are less sensitive to the micromachining error than Prototype V.V.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.400-406
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• 1999

Piezoresistive flow sensors with four different types of microbeam structures were fabricated using (100), n/$n^+$/n three-layer silicon wafer and their characteristics were investigated. Piezoresistors were formed through boron diffusion and its values were about $1\;k{\Omega}$. Three-dimensional silicon microbeams were constructed by porous silicon micromachining and curled microbeams were fabricated by the difference in the thermal expansion coefficient between silicon and metal. The output response of the fabricated sensor was evaluated through half- bridge. The output voltage increased with increasing length of microbeam at the same flow velocity, while the detectable measurement range extended with decreasing length of microbeam. The output voltage of the fabricated sensors were increased with quotient of 3.2 of the flow rate since the stress of the beam versus the gas flow showed non-linear characteristics.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.499-503
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• 2002

This work focuses on eliminating tiny particles from the coolant in a nuclear pipe line by using a permanent magnet on the exterior surface of the pipe. This method have some merits compared with the many applied methods and is expected to be applied to most of the pipe lines in the nuclear plant. For instance in this method, a ring is attached to the exterior surface of the pipe, so that it does not affect the inflows directly. Further, the cost needed in the initial build-up of the facility is low.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.6 no.4 s.21
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• pp.45-49
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• 2003

This work focuses on eliminating tiny particles from the coolant in a nuclear pipe line by using a permanent magnet on the exterior surface of the pipe. This method have some merits compared with the currently applied methods and is expected to be applied to most of the pipe lines in the nuclear plant. For instance in this method, a ring is attacked to the exterior surface of the pipe, so that it does not affect the inflows directly. Further, the cost needed in the initial build-up of the facility is low.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.03a
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• pp.106-112
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• 2004

A kinetic theory analysis is made of low-speed gas flows around a micro-plate. The Boltzmann equation simplified by a collision model is solved by means of a finite difference approximation with the discrete ordinate method. The method does not suffer from statistical noise which is common in particle based methods and requires much less amount of computational effort. Calculations are made for flows around a micro-scale flat plate with a finite length of 20 microns. The method is assessed by comparing the results with those from several different methods and available experimental data.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.03b
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• pp.671-674
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• 2008

We investigate the slippage effect in a micro-channel depending on the surface characteristics; hydrophilic, hydrophobic, and super-hydrophobic wettabilities. The micro-scale grooves are fabricated on the vertical wall to make the super-hydrophobic surfaces, which enable us visualize the flow fields near walls and directly measure the slip length. Velocity profiles are measured using micro-particle image velocimetry (Micro-PIV) and compared those in the hydrophilic glass, hydrophobic PDMS, and super-hydrophobic PDMS micro-channels. To directly measure the velocity in the super-hydrophobic micro-channel, the transverse groove structures are fabricated on the vertical wall in the micro-channel. The velocity profile near the wall shows larger slip length and, if the groove structure is high and wide, the liquid meniscus forms curves into the valley so that the wavy flow is created after the grooves.